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Serious question - why?

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Serious reply, why not?

Why would you not want people to produce software for Linux?

Pride? Too much respect for a long standing feud?

What I mean is, why would Microsoft do this? If Edge is a nice piece of software that's in demand, why make it easier for people to run it on a rival OS? Conversely, if Edge is shovelware that directly benefits Microsoft in some way, why would anyone go out of their way to run it? Especially anyone who cares enough to go out of their way to install Linux? I'm just struggling to understand the target audience.

Although, from some of the sibling comments, perhaps I've underestimated its popularity?

> Why would Microsoft do this?

Probably because Google already did all the hard work -- it's a Chrome fork -- and it's good press in tech circles.

As a web front-end developer who develop on linux, i can finally ditch a VM with windows for edge tests.

Unlikely IE, edge its been a widely used browser since its good as chrome so people don't have the need to switch browser, so it have to be tested

Now we can expect apple release safari to linux? I don't expect this so soon.

I'd feel more comfortable keeping the VM personally.

Broswer compatibility testing

It’s a decent browser. Some don’t mind it being proprietary.

So you can run Edge Linux on WSLg. /s

This makes sense to me. Moreover, soon enough you won’t be able to have a Linux running on WSL without Edge being preinstalled or injected - just as has been the case with Windows for a while now.

why what? It's a genuinely good browser: vertical tabs, built-in coupon finder, built-in add blocker etc. At worst you have your telemetry, that is otherwise sent to Google, sent to MS

Why not? I tried it and it seemed a good browser. I think it’s a good option for those who hate Google.

Does it needs root to install ?

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